Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Internal Medicine

Diabetic complications, which occur both acutely and on a chronic basis, are an enormous challenge facing doctors at every level of care.There needs to be more knowledge, which is compiled into a textbook and is unavailable for reference- taking this into account, to provide clinical care, to address challenges to family physicians, nurses, diabetologists, subspecialty physicians, surgeons, doctors in training, and telemedicine consultations.

This book is a compilation of different subjects in diabetic care, which can be easily referred to in diverse situations and organ...

Pancreatic cancer is a challenging and complex disease characterized by a dense fibrotic stroma and an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment.  Until recently, there were no predictive biomarkers to personalize selection of targeted or biologic therapies as a part of standard of care treatment. Moreover, the regulatory immune population of cells creates a “cold”, non-immunogenic tumor that is resistant to immunotherapies including checkpoint inhibitors. However, in the last few years, there has been substantial...

Hospital-based physicians are privy to some of the most meaningful moments of people’s lives, including life-changing diagnoses, pivotal medical procedures, complex medical decisions, and critical end-of-life decisions. Yet, hospitalists have no framework for how to incorporate the varied social factors that impact care such as race, gender identity, cultural background, immigration status, sexual orientation, primary language, housing status, and poverty into clinical decision-making. As hospital physicians, we may use interpreters for our limited English proficiency...

Stepped Care 2.0: A Paradigm Shift in Mental Health, by Dr Peter Cornish, made a compelling argument for why the existing mental health care system has consistently struggled to meet the needs of clients from all walks of life, and laid out key principles and guidelines for how the system could be changed. But what challenges are involved in putting these ideas into practice? Stepped Care 2.0: The Power of Conundrums features essays, interviews, and arguments from a wide range of contributors who have tried to do just that.

The Power of Conundrums dives deep...

With abundant illustrations, this atlas provides valuable information learned from the diagnoses and treatments of the patients with small intestinal diseases. It also introduces the advances of the latest medical technologies in small intestinal medicine, such as capsule endoscopy, double-balloon...

Dieses Buch hilft Ihnen zu einer sicheren und korrekten Befundung sowie Bewertung von EKGs. Anhand von realen Fallbeispielen und etwa 200 Original-EKGs lernen Sie in 16 Kapiteln schrittweise die typischen pathologischen EKG-Veränderungen kennen, z.B. bei Herzinfarkt, bradykarden und tachykarden Herzrhythmusstörungen oder bei strukturellen Herzerkrankungen. Klinische Exkurse erklären die Relevanz der EKG-Veränderungen und Fragen und Antworten dienen zur Wissensüberprüfung. Zahlreiche EKG-Übungen mit Lösungen am Buchende helfen, das Gelernte zu vertiefen. Besonderes Plus: Über...

This second edition, comprising 28 chapters, explains every aspect of the role of radiographers in performing CT colonography (CTC) and interpreting CTC images with the aim of enabling radiographers to extend the scope of their practice. It provides information required with respect to communication with the patient, procurement of informed consent, the principles of CT as well as dual-energy CT and photon counting CT, radiation dose, patient preparation and positioning, the use of contrast media, the performance of diagnostic and screening CTC studies, the interpretation and reporting of...